The Whiskey Wars That Left Brooklyn in Ruins
In 1862 the new Bureau of Internal Revenue began taxing whiskey as a means of funding the Civil War. The tax rose for years until the government’s take... ...leries went underground to avoid it. Avoiding the tax was so profitable tha...
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